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Commentaire de reneakazyx

Rainbow ore!As an explanation, it once had the inv_ore_arcanite_01 icon.

Commentaire de Rulker

This is a Saronite ore for Cataclysm, which is used for high (not highest) level gear and professions. Can be found in Deepholm (mostly), Uldum, Twilight Highlands and Tol Barad.

Commentaire de zelfana

Looks like yummy slush that would (s)melt in my mouth.

Commentaire de JadedOne

Taste the rainbow.

Commentaire de LoKHor

The best place to mine this is in Deepholm. You can do a spiral in towards the centre and then back out and collect it as you go. The only downside is that Deepholm requires level 82 to access via the Maelstrom. So your level 80 alts are going to have to find two levels before you go a-mining.

Commentaire de Shogol

Really more than in Twilight Highlands? There is more elementium in there than copper ore in start places

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Commentaire de namais

Or just get a warlock guild mate of yours to summon you there. It works just fine to skill and farm nodes there as level 80. Flying works aswell if anyone wonders.

Commentaire de Dhannek

Strangely enough, Obsidium Ore seems to drop far more quantity of uncommon-level gems than Elementium Ore does. Obsidium seems to drop 2x uncommon gems per prospect, where this is definitely rarer on Elementium. Maybe this is because Elementium has a higher chance go give rare-quality gems too, where Obsidium does not? Who knows!

This is a little frustrating when trying to level Jewelcrafting, as there are far more Elementium nodes in the game (especially thanks to Deepholm) than Obsidium, and tons of uncommon gems are used for leveling 450 through 500+ in Jewelcrafting.

Commentaire de Kalx

# The tradeskill nodes were too dense in Deepholm and Twilight Highlands for Mining and Herbalism. Several have been removed.

Thats 31 uncommon gems and 119 uncommon which gives a total of 150 oddly enough. Pretty even numbers :) This gives an average of exactly 1.5 gems per prospect. (Excuse my math if I messed up somewhere)

Commentaire de XIMoonFangIX

Ugly image imo :(

Commentaire de Breck

All of the comments related to level required to prospect (including this one) need to be purged, since it says right up there in the Quick Facts that it requires 475.

Commentaire de Aren95

Your best bet inorder to find a load amount of Elementium in only one area without a need to go anywhere is in Twilight Highlands, down at Elementium Depths, where you fight Magmatooth once again. A single run into the deepest part got me a good stack, and if not, the remaining ores left to make up the twenty ores would be replaced by Pyrium. So get to the cave, and farm your ass off while you still can.

Amberjewels seemed low while leveling; interesting that it came out in the results and that the prospecting followed the 80/20 drop distribution anyway. I heard about varying resources between servers, maybe this is it. I'll do another run to try and confirm. --Agrathus, Moonrunner

Commentaire de nicefig

Crunching numbers on the data provided by users for Obsidium Ore and Elementium Ore:

This means that for obsidium ore to be preferentially prospected, average selling price of a rare gem should be roughly <2.4x the average selling price of the uncommon gem (R:U ratio <2.4). If this inequality does not hold on your server's economy (R:U >2.4), then elementium should be preferentially prospected. The assumption is that the selling prices of obsidium and elementium approach equality.

On my server, the R:U is about 2.0. Couple with the fact that uncommons sell far quicker due to the advantage of supplying the rares market via transmutation, demand from freshly-geared 85's as well as JC dailies. Also, obsidium tends to be listed 10-20% lower than elementium on the AH. (R:U threshold rises to ~2.8)

For most intents and purposes, JC's wishing to harvest ore for gems should consider prospecting obsidium and selling elementium. Your results may vary.

Commentaire de Andrea87

Still pretty worth to buy off the AH to prospect. Actually on Hakkar orde it's at ~70-80g per stack.

Commentaire de Noise

A stack of 20 can now be purchased for 2000 justice points from Togar <Justice Trade Goods> on the Horde side. Looks like Blizzard added a Justice Point dump for players who don't need more heirloom or ilvl 346 gear.

Commentaire de Dcn78

I am very disapointed that they made this a normal metal, I wish they would have kept it as a rare epic material instead of changing it into the saronite of cataclysm. I miss vanilla wow. :(

On my server it is still worth it to buy the ore (3g 50s each) prospect and sell the gems (Cut or uncut depending on prices).

Commentaire de Kimmberlynn

I was finding it rather lucrative to farm these in Twilight Highlands. A nice path through the river up around Grim Batol. I was finding four and five nodes of Pyrite clustered together around the gates of Grim Batol along with six or so nodes of Elementium Ore just between the two gates. Unfortunately due to the phasing of the zone when you begin the chain Une cargaison de valeur it changed the phasing. Now I can see all the nodes on my mini map and visually but when I get close to mining distance they all disappear.

Commentaire de Sondo

In using these statsJC can turn a profit from the vendor provided they cut the gems (both uncommon and rare) and sell directly to a vendor if the ore is on the AH or in trade chat for anything less than 40g38s82c or get free rare gems if less than 39g31s20c.

I understand it is different for every server. I play on Illidan and have been doing this for about a week now I set my threshold to 35g/stack for both Elementium Ore and Obsidium Ore. I can turn a profit of about 10,000g per day with minimal interaction with the game. A few addons (SellJunk and Auctioneer) and two simple macros. One of the macros is for Prospecting and the other one is for creating all the gems and selling them to the vendor. I am sorry I don't have pretty links or data saved with a screen shot but my statistic page under wealth, if you were to inspect me, (Gavinator is my JC's name) has rolled over and is well on it's way back to the positive. It still takes time like everything in the World of Warcraft.

Commentaire de Wownowbrowncow

good post except what zone you were in may of been more helpful than just stats.

Commentaire de bluesoda

If you ever see a stack of elementium for 36 gold or less, buy it immediately. You will make back all of the gold just from cutting and vendoring the uncommon gems (minimum 4 uncommons, 9g a piece). This makes any extra uncommons and any rare gems pure profit, whether you use them for dailies, cut and vendor the extra uncommons, or sell them raw (the daily gems generally sell for 2x as much as the others on my server). The rares can be cut and auctioned or again, sold raw. Any and all elementium I see for 36g or less is instantly mine, even if I spend 10k on it. Because I know I will make all of it back, and then a bunch of extra profit.

*EDIT* MMO-Champion datamined the other day that uncommon gems will be vendored at 75s now. If you have a stockpile of these or ore, prospect and get rid of them now, before the patch hits! Granted this is datamined and not 100% accurate, but better safe than sorry imho.

Commentaire de buzz3070

For the lore side of this, this ore is not native to Azeroth. This ore is actually from the elemental plane of earth known and Deepholm. Before the shattering it was a very rare thing to have as the stone mother therazane would not allow the ore to go beyond her realm. After Deathwing broke out of Deepholm during the cataclysm elementim became more readily Avalible on the surface of Azeroth.

Commentaire de Raystigz

Prospecting these and vendoring the gems are probably one of the best ways to make gold right now (till 4.1 when green gems dont vendor for 9g each anymore). These are the stats I got from buying a ton of ore today and prospecting:

Interestingly, high on the Ember Topaz and low on the Hessonite, but not a clear high on the green quality or a low on the blue quality. The overall drops seem to be down 2% on greens and 15% on the blues. Also, the 80/20 green/blue distribution seems to have been adjusted to 82/18; looks like they're doing some supply side adjustments.--Agrathus, Moonrun

Commentaire de ppcbranco

We know we get between 1 and 3 gems each time we prospect (between uncommon and rare gems).I'm interested in the distribution of this.This is the data I have. 382 times prospected (1910 ores).

1 uncommon: 265 times (69.37%)

1 uncommon, 1 rare: 79 times (20.68%)

2 uncommon: 29 times (7.59%)

1 uncommon, 2 rare: 3 times (0.79%)

2 uncommon, 1 rare: 6 times (1.57%)

I didn't get any of the other possible outcomes (e.g. a lonely rare gem).If anyone else has data separated in these categories I'd appreciate it.

Commentaire de Bonanca

Now let's do some math. First % stands for the chance of the specific gem to drop per stack, the second % for drop per prospect.

Commentaire de tguile

Here is a route I use to get elementium ore:www.guitarstars.biz/WOW/Its sorta like the route on isle of quel danis for adamantite ore.Not any mobs at all really. (Im 85 and have done about 75 uldum quests)There is about 2 nodes south, 2 west, 1 north going into the openingand 2 east. I follow the little ridge on the east side away from the main mountain.I say they respawn about every 5-7 minutes except for the north one whichtakes longer. Check it out!

Commentaire de tguile

Here is a route I use to get elementium ore in Uldum:http://www.guitarstars.biz/WOW/Its sorta like the route on isle of quel danis for adamantite ore.Not any mobs at all really. (Im 85 and have done about 75 uldum quests)There is about 2 nodes south, 2 west, 1 north going into the openingand 2 east. I follow the little ridge on the east side away from the main mountain.I say they respawn about every 5-7 minutes except for the north one whichtakes longer. Check it out!

When its all added up, I made 4,420g. That is a 3,220g profit. Pretty sick for like an hour of work.

Commentaire de aprince

BTW, the way I got my ores so cheap is buying one stack for 70g (the usual price), and listing it at 37g. Then I got back on the AH an hour later, and there were like 30 stacks listed at 36g. Coulda backfired, but some noob made me look like an all-star. ROFL.

Commentaire de krypticpitbull

The Route around Uldum linked by JJHilly is by far the best one ive seen. I got about 8 stacks on elementium and 2 stacks of pyrite. Screenshot posted above is everything I got while Farming per that route

Commentaire de Rawbert

Best place I've found to farm this ( - especially if JJHilly's path through Uldum is overrun) is the Elementium Depths caves in Twilight Highlands. Unfortunately, it's overladen with mobs, so being a stealth unit has its perks. The nodes spawn faster than I can stealth through the caves.

For reference, the cave mouth is at .

Commentaire de bookworm13

For the best resource for determining the mining levels as well as the best zones to farm them in, browse through the Mineral Veins listing.

Extra note: if your realm has a high price for enchanting materials, and you have an Enchanter, make sure to convert your uncommon red gems into Carnelian Spikes (a very high chance of getting 2-3 Greater Celestial Essences per Carnelian Spike disenchanted). Same can go for Jasper and Alicite, although the formers will yield more Hypnotic Dust than Lessers or Greaters.

Commentaire de darthanian

FYI- Anyone having problems mining or herbing with 4.3 getting the "This has been tapped" message you'll need to spam the "Sit" command and try and mine.

Commentaire de Uldz

Hello, my character username is Uldz on server Alterac Mountain(US HORDE),I am a jewelcrafter and I have lately seen the potential to make extreme ammount of profits from buying stacks of elementium and prospecting them. This is recent, hard and solid data from patch 4.3.0

I prospected a large ammount of ores to have a credible and solid percentage on every green and blue quality Cataclysm gems. I hope some of you are able to use my hard work to calculate your potential gold profit depending on your server's auction house prices. Enjoy!

(The percentage reflects the chance you have of getting a certein gem).

Stacks prospected: 2000 (8000 Prospect, 40,000 ores)

Alicite : 1582 (19.775%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)carnelian : 1600 (20%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)hessonite : 1631 (20.3875%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)jasper : 1621 (20.2625%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)nightstone : 1631 (20.3875%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)zephyrite : 1626 (20.325%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)

AmberJewel : 345 (4.3125%, OR one in 5.7 Stacks)demonseye : 392 (4.9%, OR one in 5.1 Stacks)dream emerald : 406 (5.075%, OR one in 4.9 Stacks)ember topaz : 392 (4.9%, OR one in 5.1 Stacks)Inferno Ruby : 377 (4.7125%, OR one in 5.3 Stacks)ocean sapphire : 404 (5.05%, OR one in 4.9 Stacks)

Commentaire de mikeymagicc

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I found the best places to mine for was in Deepholme and Tol Barad. You can mine the Gyreworms in Deepholme and have chance to get extra ore, and you might even stumble upon some Pyrite if you're lucky in Tol Barad :)

Commentaire de DjRicko

*Note: uncommon gems are always worth 75s as they can be cut and vendored for that value, even with zephyrite often being sold for less on the ah on some realms)

Commentaire de Vanquisher

I went from having the lowest priced elementium ore on the server to the highest in just less than two weeks. And I could not keep them in the auction house whatsoever but now you can't even give these away anymore. What the heck happened? Are these completely useless now?

Commentaire de domacleod

The unique properties of elementium allow it to absorb and channel elemental forces. Skilled smiths temper elementium in blistering forges, adding to the quality of the item. All such objects are masterwork quality and are immune to cold, fire and electricity damage. Elementium is the hardest known metal. Elementium is so heavy that to craft armor from it would leave the wearer virtually immobile, so the metal is usually only used to craft weapons. Elementium has no market price. It's too rare to be available. It's not something you buy-it's something you go get.

From: WoWWiki

Elementium OreItem Level 83Sell Price: 22s50c

Buyout price: 3g11s25c (each)Refundable

Good job blizzard!

Commentaire de Drathellia

The Elementium Depths in Twilight Highlands is one of the best places to get a consistent supply of Elementium and pyrite ore. Not to many people usually there and the enemies aren't to bad to deal with. U should be able to average a full bag of E. Ore in less than a few hours of mining with some pyrite to boot. =D

Commentaire de Guy19

Got stacks of these fishing the Shipwreck Debris nodes on the shores of Darkmoon Island, along with other high lvl mats.

Commentaire de Mike21daisu

There is a place called Elementium Depths in Twilight Highlands, I found about 100-120 elementium and 20 pyrite ores in there, it's a cave and there are lots of elementium and pyrite ores in there, it's the best place for farming elementium ores.

Commentaire de Mixtonic

The name Elementium Depths speaks for it self. I was able to make a good 20-30 ores from just clearing it (took about 15 minutes). I find it easier to farm here than to run around in Uldum where there are more people and the nodes are more spread out, so if you're like me, head over to Elementium Depths in south-western Twilight Highlands.

Commentaire de DisRuptive1

In Uldum, Elementium ore nodes take approximately 5 and a half minutes to spawn (I've clocked at ranges between 5:25 and 5:40).

Once you've mined a node, a cooldown starts which lasts approximately 5 and a half minutes. After this time has passed, the node will respawn a random Elementium, Rich Elementium, or Pyrium node at random. Allowing a node to exist for a certain period of time of not being mined doesn't upgrade the node or change the node in any way. The node stays what it is until it's mined and then it respawns randomly once its cooldown is over.

The most efficient way to mine is to find a route that takes an amount of time equal to or greater than but not less than the respawn period of whatever you're mining. That means the most efficient method for mining Elementium in Uldum involves using a route that takes at least 5 and a half minutes to complete. Some posters will post routes that take 10 minutes or longer to complete, taking you across every node in the zone. The problem with this is that the longer a node exists before you get to it means that there's a greater chance for someone else to come along and grab it.

In fact, the most efficient routes will be quite small (such as with Obsidium Ore). You can only mine, mount, and dismount so many times before an ore node respawns. If you're the first one on a node when it respawns and your route brings you back to that node shortly after it respawns again, eventually you'll "own" every node on your route. Only some random lucky person who comes across your node a second before you get there will have a chance at stealing it, and even then, it won't affect your route in any way. An efficient route will bring you back to that point shortly after the node respawns and you'll have that node for yourself.

Contested Areas

There's a few things you can do to give yourself an edge if you're in a heavily contested zone. Even if you have the perfect route, you're going to have randoms doing their thing coming across one of your nodes around the time it respawns (this is why you want to be as close to 5:30 as possible without going under because going over too long gives randoms time to take the respawn).

The first thing you should do is make sure you have a macro or macros that are easily accessible and allow you to mount and dismount quickly. For instance:

#showtooltip/cast Flying mount

You can use this macro to mount yourself when unmounted and to dismount without having to land (learning how to fall onto a node is a valuable skill). I'll say this again because it's important: make sure it's quickly and easily accessible. Move one of your attack skills off your main bar and replace it with your mounting macro. You want to get out of the air and get back in the air as quickly as possible when you see a node.

Another tip is to fly low. Ore nodes don't spawn in the air. They might spawn on a mountain or there might be some nodes at the top of a large hill and some at the bottom. Fly close to the ground at an altitude equidistant from the nodes you're searching. I've stolen too many nodes from people who fly high up in the air and then dive onto the node only to find I'm there first because I was closer to the ground. There's no reason to fly high up in the air.

Mount up as soon as you're done mining. In fact, the game should allow you to queue up your mount ability while you're still looting the node. Then it will automatically cast your mount spell as soon as possible. Also, as your mounting spell ends, jump in the air. Any movement made while mounted should be in the air because of the superior speed you have (280%+). If you travel on the ground, you'll travel slower than your flying speed. So jump after mounting.

Don't get discouraged from people who get to a node first. It's part of the game. You've got the superior route which pays off each time you run the route. If someone gets a node before you, mount up (if not already mounted) and continue on the route. Your superior route will get you back to the node first when it respawns 5 and a half minutes later. I've seen too many players who've lost a node to me just stand there unmounted wanting to do an /emote or something. Maybe their mounting macro wasn't conveniently available to them? But their slowness allowed me to mine the node, mount up and beat them on the next node. In the worst case scenario where someone else is following this exact same route, you'll be bunny hopping and only getting 50% of the ore as usual but there aren't any better solutions other than be quick on your mounting macro.

Competition sucks, but try not to let it affect you and you should still be able to pick up a respectable amount of ore.

Commentaire de Vanquisher

Do not even bother to mine these since they are selling for next to nothing for some reason yet every other ore is selling close to what they should be selling for.

Assuming this is correct, it is best if one were to start farming elementium ore now, before the inevitable farming post expansion happens to keep leveling engineers happy.

Been waiting a long time for a change like this to engineering.

This change should occur between pre-Warlords of Draenor patch 6.0, or as the expansion hits.

My guess? Since the expansion itself requires unlocking from Blizzard's personal servers, then this will be something that one can get after the expansion has launched.

Happy farming!

Commentaire de Allyz

In my opinion the best place to farm Elementium Ore is Zul'Gurub. You don't even need the mining skill. Both Kaulema the Mover and Mor'Lek the Dismantler (two mini bosses that are not bound to the ID) drop a giant sack which contains 6-14 Elementium Ore and as long no boss has been killed the instance can be reset and the two can be killed over and over again. Only downside is that there is a limit of instance resets per hour but with the recent increase to 10 per hour 120 - 280 in 10 minutes (depending on your speed and how many other loot bosses you kill) isn't that bad.

Commentaire de Nykxy

For me, the easiest place to find Elementium ore was Deepholm I made a circle around the Jagged wastes with a stopover in the cave called the Crumbling Depths and had 51 ore, a few Obsidium ore (sorry didn't track that number, maybe 5-10) and couple gems within 10 minutes. The other place I've found it in Deepholm is the Fungal Cave but it's a bit more annoying to get all the way in there.

Commentaire de ladymoongirl

Well, I just went hunting for some Elementium ore and I found more in Uldum than in Deepholm. In Deepholm I found more Obsidian than Elementium.

Commentaire de TheWoWExp

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I jumped on my miner and timed different zones and different routes in order to get the most amount of ore. Keep in mind that I am a HORDE DRUID, which allows me a faster time in grabbing ore, due to instantly popping in and out of flight/aquatic form.

While there are other items you can obtain while mining nodes, I merely state the ores and stone I’ve collected—no gems or other such items.

This place is iffy with the amount of Elementium Ore you can get. This is because there's a lot of areas that the ore can spawn in, and you just can't get to every single node in a decent amount of time. It's kind of a mountainous zone, but it's not too bad.

This zone offers a simple route that mainly hugs the mountainside--because of it being easy to follow for ore, it's possible you'll be finding competition. Even when there's a bit of a gap from going through the zone, it's actually where I found the most amount of ore in ten minutes.

There is everywhere in this zone. At least, location-wise. Where the ore is actually spawning is sporadic, which makes this place one of my more hated zones to farm in. I use to left side of the map to farm, but obviously you could make a right side portion as well. I just didn't.